Chris McCandless is NOT a Hero in the Book, Into the Wild by John Krakauer

Chris McCandless is NOT a Hero in the Book, Into the Wild by John Krakauer

507 WordsJan 26th, 20182 Pages

The people who view him as a hero tend to believe that he was determined enough to want to do something. Others view him as an idiot who just wanted attention. Him being unprepared and not knowing much about how to survive in the wild made McCandless an idiot, the dumb jerk. Also causing him to be a poor role model to multiple people causing them to end up in dangerous situations that could be threatening to their lives.
Having the right supplies for hiking or in Chris’s case going out to live in the wild is critical. Chris was lacking in this category. When Chris was found a few weeks later in the woods it was evident that he didn’t have the food supply he needed to survive. Matthew Power from Men's Journal The Magazine, brings up the point that Chris only brought a few things with him, “Setting off with little more than a twenty-two caliber rifle and a ten-pound bag of rice, McCandless hoped to find his true self by renouncing society and living off the land.” Chris later proved that even if you intend to live off the land if you are not used to it and living that way it is going to be extremely hard and may even result in death.
Chris was on a death mission weather he realized it or not. He went into the wild and is now causing people to unintentionally cause self harm to themselves. Peter Christian added, “Some like…

Chris McCandless went on a journey across America, getting away from the real world and enjoying his time on earth by doing what he wants to do. Most people think he is dumb for what he did and a lot think that he is a hero. He passed away August 18, 1992 in Alaska, where he wanted to travel. But after the the stuff he went through, was it worth it?
Chris McCandless wanted to go on a journey to see if he could survive in the Alaska’s wild, but was it worth it? In the book Into the Wild, while he…

John Karkauer novel, Into the Wild tells a true life story about a young man
by the name of Christopher McCandless, who creates a new life for himself by leaving
civilization to live in the wilderness. The story exhibits how Christopher develops and
matures throughout the story by prevailing harsh predicaments and learning valuable
lessons on the way. Christopher’s character evolves by comprehending several new
lessons such as finding true pleasure, disregarding other people’s judgments, as…

into the wild and “discover” himself. With the bearings of a modern-day bildungsroman, such a story may not seem uncommon; after all, young adult novels and films have both glorified and censured the youthful adventure tale, perpetuating an image of adolescents (particularly young males) as courageous yet foolhardy individuals who adamantly desire self-discovery. Such depictions may not be far from reality, as demonstrated by the story of Chris McCandless in Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction book Into the…

Christopher McCandless can't be described with a certain term or definition because there is not one particular fixation that can be made about him. He escaped from a world he personally didn't understand. Why people couldn't treat each other righteously, why they lived the way they did. Unhappy and stuck in a mundane system always following the rules. Chris didn't like rules. Rules were a restraint that held him down from being who he was meant to be. He wanted to exist in a world where he was intended…

to be Chris McCandless ' body, was discovered in an old Fairbanks bus in the Alaskan bush. Four years after his death, Jon Krakauer wrote a novel titled Into The Wild, the book traced McCandless 's journey around much of the United States, across the West side of Canada, and even down to the boarder of Mexico. Over the many years since his death, speculations have arisen about how death was brought upon him. Most believe starvation was the only reason, but with extensive research Jon Krakauer discovered…

Jon Krakauer and Chris McCandless
Into the Wild, a novel talks a young boy called Chris McCandless who was born in a rich East Coast family and traveled to Alaska by hitchhiking until he walked into the wilderness and then he dead. He loved to adventure, seek a place without civilization and escape where he lived. The author of the novel, Jon Krakauer, has similar experience to McCandless. Jon Krakauer climbed Devils Thumb, the one of dangerous mountains in Alaska alone when he was twenty-three,…

ability to earn money and spend money indiscriminately. Others crumple under the social pressures placed on us. Christopher McCandless is a perfect example. Settling down and raising a family, providing for that family and creating a sustainable lifestyle are important and high stress things that we all must deal with if we are to enjoy the finer things in life. Chris totally abandoned that, he gave away all of his possessions; even denied the help that his parents were willing to give him. There…

Since the release of Jon Krakauer’s book Into The Wild there has been controversy on whether or not what Chris McCandless, better known as Alex Supertramp, did was idiotic or heroic based on his journey. People’s opinions vary, like many things, based on their personal experiences. Seeing him either as some jerk kid who ditched a life that many people would kill for, to embark on this own endeavors in his life. Or, someone who truly knew what he wanted out of his life and went after it; which is…

The famous story of Chris McCandless’s journey, Into The Wild, provokes the reader
to ask a certain question at the end of it all: Is Chris McCandless someone people should look
up to? Or is he just another person who bit off a little more than he could chew? With various
accounts from people who met this young man in the novel, it’s hard for someone not to show
bias on this topic. Many viewed him as brave and heroic for his accomplishments; others viewed
him as an unprepared…

Jon Krakauer, fascinated by a young man in April 1992 who hitchhiked to Alaska and lived alone in the wild for four months before his decomposed body was discovered, writes the story of Christopher McCandless, in his national bestseller: Into the Wild. McCandless was always a unique and intelligent boy who saw the world differently. Into the Wild explores all aspects of McCandless’s life in order to better understand the reason why a smart, social boy, from an upper class family would put himself…